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H. H. WELLS.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. 5, 1919.

Patented Aug. 9, 1921.

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Application led December 5, 1919. Serial No.`342,591.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that l, HARVEY H. WELLS, citizen of the United States, residin at Chicago, in the county of Cook and tate of Illinois, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description.

My invention relates to those boxes formed of cardboard or other sheet material having rectangular sides, tops and bottoms and provided at their tops and bottoms with wing extensions instead of displaceable lids.

The invention resides in providing a box tying string in such relation to the wing extensions that the string may be employed to tie the box effectively closed, the string being upon the exterior of the wings at the transverse edges thereof to prevent the Vbox from being pried open at these edges.

I will explain my invention more fully by reference to the accompanying drawing showing the preferred embodiment thereof and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a box equipped with the string in accord` these opposite box sides, these wing extensions projecting inwardly tow( rd each other upon the top of the box and uponthe bot-V tom of the box. The remaining opposite sides 2 of the box are formed with other foldable wing extensions 4 at the top and bottom edges of thesebox sides 2, these wing extensions projecting inwardly 'toward each other and overlapping at their inner or free ends upon the top of the box and upon the bottom of the box, the first -aforesaid wing' extensions 3 being inclosed by the overlapping wing extensions 4. Each outermost sraras rxrsnr Lorsica, f

HARVEY H. WELLS, Oli'v CHICAGO, ILJIVNOIS.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patntgd Auw. 9,

one of the overlapping wing extensions has four holes 5, 6, 7 and 8 .distributed along its free end. A string 9 circumscribes the box. It passes over those top and bottom corners 10 of the box that are atthe top and bottom edges of the aforesaid sides 1 from 'which the first aforesaid wing extensions 3 proj ect. The string passes through the holes 5 and 8 that are nearest said top and bot- .tom box corners into place between the corresponding overlapping wings, the string l 'also passing through the remaining holes 6 and 7 to be upon the exterior rof the overlapping wings. The string,where it passes through these holes, is in one plane but the string is desirably also passed around the box in another plane at right angles to the first. In the latter passage of the string it is desirably disposed between the part of the string that passes through the holes 6 and 7 and the box to keep this part of the string string may be tied together and sealed by a seal 11.

Having thus described my inventionI claim as Vnew and desirek to securefby Letters Patent the following:

The combination with a box formed of sheet material and having four rectangular sides whose topl and bottom edges respectively define rectangles,'two oppositev sides ofthe box being`formedwith foldable wing extensions projecting from the top and bottom edges thereof, the remaining opposite sides of the box being also formed with foldable wing extensions projecting from thevfronislipping off'. The loose ends of the so l top andbottom edges of these remaining box sides, Vthe latter wing extensions upon theV topvofthe boxl and also those upon the bot?` tom of the box overlapping each other at their free ends, the first aforesaid wing extensions being inclosed by said overlapping wing extensions, an outermost one of the latter wing extensions having four holes dis,-

Atributed along its free end g' of a string circumscribing the box and passing in one plane over those top and bottom corners ofthe boxat the top and bottomedges of'thosev opposite sides of the box from-which the first aforesaid wings extend, this' string passing through the holes nearest the adjacent sides of the box into place between that is upon the exterior of the boxV and bethe corresponding overlapping Wings. and tween the aforesaid remaining holes. through the remaining holes to be upon the In Witness whereof l hereunto subscribe 10 exterior of these wings, said string` also being my name this seventh day of November,

5 passed about the box in another plane sub- A. D. 1919.

stantiaily et right angles to the {irst and between the box and the portion of the string HARVEY H. WELLS. 

